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This guidebook is a result of partnerships between numerous companies, literacy agencies, and trade associations involved with manufacturing and exports in Canada. The guidebook is divided into two sections. Literacy & Essential Skills in Business provides information and facts about Canada's efforts to improve literacy and essential skills in the workplace. The second section is a workbook providing tools for workplace assessments, checklists and usable templates to initiate a workplace literacy program. There is also a very useful appendix with additional resources.

In this edition, we feature the Workforce Competitiveness Collection, which covers Workforce Education, English Language Acquisition, and Technology. Each month, Collections News features one of the three LINCS Resource Collections - Basic Skills, Program Management, and Workforce Competitiveness - and introduces research-based resources that you can use in your adult basic education and family literacy programs and classrooms.

Story on the Ohio Adult Basic Literacy and Education program that works with students who place at the lowest levels in academic readiness for higher education.

Georgia report evaluating the impact of developmental education on different student groups

Mission is to provide adults with educational opportunities to acquire and improve their literacy skills. State's longitudinal data study mentioned in Jam.

From Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. I-BEST is an instructional model that pairs education and professional-technical instructors in the classroom

College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from the College Board.

Description of program on Getting Past Go site.

Summarizes the objectives of and lessons learned from Washington's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. The program pairs English as a second language (ESL)/adult basic education (ABE) instructors and professional-technical instructors in the classroom to concurrently provide students with literacy education and workforce skills. (Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, December 2005)

Transition to College and Careers (TCC) Pilot Project. A "career pathways" model to help adults with limited education enter and succeed in college programs.

Examines the current policy challenges that impede access to postsecondary education for adult students who require English language training, GED or Adult Basic Education training. The report offers several recommendations to improve adult basic education and track student results.(Julie Strawn, Center for Law and Social Policy, National Commission on Adult Literacy, 2007)

Remedial/Developmental Reading Program Review (December 2, 2009). Report covers quantitative data and analysis.

Story on the new innovations in college readiness. Includes overview of early assessment programs and the potential impact of the Common Core.

"This article provides a rationale for incorporating the development of critical thinking skills into the online learning environment. The author also presents possibilities for building these cognitive skills into online classes. She maintains that incorporating critical thinking skills is a necessary component of learning; these skills assist learners to evaluate and link the abundance of information and ideas that is available via information communication technologies (ICTs). "

This brief addresses the current and projected need for skilled workers and the skills immigrants will need to be able to take these positions. These skills are based in academic and higher level thinking skills. The authors provide the rationale and research underlying the need to incorporate these skills into ESL classes, regardless of the level or purpose of the courses (e.g., beginning, life skills). These skills will assist them in transitioning to postsecondary work training, academic settings, or navigating life in general. They address the following skills as being essential to incorporate into the classroom: reading and listening, note taking and organizing information, and critical thinking.

This is the first year report of a three year longitudinal study by the American Council on Education to understand the effects of obtaining the GED on postsecondary enrollment, persistence, and completion. This study supports transitioning adult learners without a high school diploma to the GED credential and into postsecondary with accelerated learning. This first year study used the information gathered at the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). The NSC holds 93 percent of postsecondary student enrollment. The study focused on adults who acquired the GED credential in 2003. The pilot study founded credential recipients had a significantly higher enrollment rate into postsecondary than non-passers; females enrolled more than males; there is no significant ethnic difference between enrollees and non-enrollees.